Chapter 2 Summary

The day after the funeral, rain interrupts the heat, and Davey's best friend Lenaya visits her. Lenaya explains that she was in Baltimore when Davey's father was killed and she found out too late to make the funeral. Lenaya is a tall, slim black girl with a passion for science. Davey day dreams about the first time she met Lenaya, when she had given Davey a picture of a dissected frog, immaculately drawn and labeled. Thinking about how everyone assumes that Lenaya is good at basketball makes Davey remember that her father was a basketball star in high school and gave up his chances of a college basketball scholarship, when he got married and had Davey.

Lenaya breaks Davey's thoughts by encouraging her to get dressed. Davey is more interested in looking at all of the newspaper clippings describing her father's killing-he was...